A beautiful afternoon with Ana Vidović playing Paganini's Allegro Risoluto.

For today's "Jazz moment", Thelonious Monk's "Blue Monk" together with Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Larry Gales on bass, and Ben Riley on drums, recorded live at the University Aula in Oslo during Monk's 1966 Scandinavian tour.

Today I visited (again) the Christmas Market in Antibes (South of France) and there was a Blues/Rock'n'Roll/etc concert. [I post and shitpost regular stuff on my main account @Constantin. I also started a mostly bad train travel account called @Trainstr, if you're into European train travel, without expectations.]

This morning, watching the sea while waiting for the sunrise, "Cri de l'âme" feels right. Composed and performed by Roman Kim and accompanied by Jure Gorucan at the piano. And with this, I wish you all a beautiful day!

For today's goodbye, Hilary Hahn playing Bach's Partita for Violin Solo No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 - 4. Double (Presto). Have a great evening!

A peaceful afternoon with Maria João Pires performing Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17, The Tempest.

For everyone who thought it should be a good idea for me to create this npub, for everyone who reposted and zapped: Verdi’s Requiem with Angela Gheorghiu, the Berliner Philharmoniker, and conductor Claudio Abbado.

Pablo Sarasate’s Caprice Basque performed by Andrei Korsakov, violin, and Iolanta Miroshnikova, piano. (1977, Soviet TV. The audio is not the original because they had recording issues, but the performance is great nonetheless.)

Merry Christmas! 🎁 🎄 From the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Béla Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances for String Orchestra Sz 56 BB 68.

For your lunch break espresso, an excerpt with Khatia Buniatishvili playing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor.

Mood: Annie Fischer playing the 2nd movement (Romance-Larghetto) of Chopin's piano concerto No. 1 in E minor. (From 1976, so not the best sound, but it's a page of history.) This is the link to the full YouTube concerto:

Alexander Markov performs Paganini Caprice 24, live on Belgium TV, as an encore after the Vieuxtemps Concerto.

For the Jazz lovers, Keith Jarrett plays the Soprano Sax with Charlie Haden, bass, and Paul Motion, drums. (1970)

This year, during the Verbier Festival, Evgeny Kissin and Martha Argerich met again to celebrate Shostakovich’s 50th anniversary with his Concertino for two pianos.

A peaceful afternoon with Johanna Beisteiner performing Schubert's Ständchen. Have a great day!

Silent Night is the most recorded song, in more than 300 languages. Last year, through an ad from Erste Bank of Austria, the visual story of Joseph Mohr, a village priest in Oberndorf, Austria, and music teacher Franz Xaver Gruber, who composed and performed the song on Christmas Eve in 1818 during a time of hardship following the Napoleonic Wars, was depicted. The film highlights how the simple song spread globally, including performances before the Austrian Emperor in 1822, its broadcast during the first-ever radio entertainment in America in 1906, a moment of peace between German and English soldiers during World War I in 1914, and its transmission to the Skylab 4 space station in 1973.

I'll end the day with Yuja Wang in 2007, when she was 19, practising Mozart's Turkish March (Arkady Volodos' arrangement) along with her Carmen encore. Have a good evening!

I didn't post opera in quite some time. Natalie Dessay and Anne Sofie von Otter singing the Presentation of the Rose scene from Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier.” Vienna State Opera, 1994.

255 years ago today, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the city of Bonn, Germany. Because the Symphony No. 9 premiered at the Theatre am Kärntnertor in Vienna, on May 7th 1824, as a small homage, I post the finale of this symphony with director Riccardo Muti and the Philharmonic of Vienna. I wish you all a beautiful day!

Today's goodbye and "wish I'd be there" moment is with Itzhak Perlman playing the third movement of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, with The Philarmonia Orchestra of London and conducted by Lawrence Foster. (1978) 👏👏👏 And here is the YouTube link for the full concert.